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A Pesky Rumble: Pink Bollworms Vs. Cotton Farmers
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:13:24
Publish Date: 2021-01-25 09:00:31
Description: The pink bollworm — an invasive species that plagues cotton farmers around the world — has been successfully eradicated from much of the U.S. and Mexico. Eradication campaigns rarely work, but this one did. NPR food and farming reporter Dan Charles gives us the play-by-play to how it took two concurrent approaches to eradicate this devastating pest.

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